Form: TheBigLead.com -- In September, when Jim Tressel’s Buckeyes lost at home to USC, Ohio State fell to a troubling 0-6 in recent years against Top 5 opponents. Tressel’s conservative play-calling and the regression of star quarterback Terrelle Pryor roiled Buckeyes fans. Some of the fears were assuaged with a Rose Bowl victory over Oregon, but it didn’t take a month before a new problem enveloped Columbus: Not only is Ohio State’s recruiting class this year down a bit – 18th ... Read More

By: Adam Heasley (BleacherReport.com) -- We have all heard it for the last year and a half. Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor is not a pro style quarterback, he's overrated and some have said he's just not that good. If the 2009 Rose Bowl game against Oregon wasn't enough to silence the critics then I don't know what is. Yes, he's struggled with turning the ball over, not being efficient in the passing game, and not being the leader he should be. Try telling that to ... Read More

From: BleacherReport.com -- With the 2009 season The Ohio State Buckeyes are looking to continue their success into 2010. The key to a potential National Championship run lies in the hands of the most controversial Buckeye to date. The controversy doesn't lie in his abilities, or in off field behavior, but rather with each fan's personal opinion. Pryor has, in my opinion, the most pressure of any recruit in the modern era. He is compared in every way to Vince Young. Every pass, every ... Read More

COLUMBUS - Joe Montgomery, a former New York Giants running back who played for Ohio State (1994-99), has sued the Buckeyes, claiming an 11-year-old falsely-reported medical report was used by the NFL to deny him workers' compension last year. The report said Montgomery suffered from high blood pressure and hay fever. In other Ohio State news: In ESPN.com's Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25, writer Mark Schlabach puts the Buckeyes at No. 2 entering the 2010 season, just behind National Champions Alabama. The Buckeyes might finally ... Read More

By: Jim Naveau (RecoredPub.com)-- COLUMBUS — The standards have been set so high in Ohio State football that it seems like there are only two kinds of off-seasons anymore. There are the off-seasons where people talk about winning a national championship. And then there are off-seasons where people really, seriously talk about winning a national championship. Call them a Category One off-season and a Category Two off-season. With the possibility of as many as 16 starters returning from the OSU team that beat Oregon 26-17 in ... Read More

By: Rob Moseley (The Register-Guard) -- LOS ANGELES — On Monday, the Oregon football team will reunite for a meeting in Eugene. It will be the first day of the winter quarter at the university, and three days since the Ducks dropped a crushing, 26-17 decision to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Based on the team’s mood in the locker room Friday, that won’t be nearly enough time for the disappointment of defeat to pass. “Not getting our seniors a win,” junior linebacker Spencer Paysinger ... Read More

By: Gerry Ahern (Yahoo Sports) -- PASADENA, Calif. – Terrelle Pryor took a knee, then flipped the football to a wide-open official. What a fitting way for the mercurial Ohio State quarterback to cap the biggest victory of his young career. What a fitting day for his passing to be at its pinnacle, his decision making at its apex. Pryor threw for a career-best 266 yards and two touchdowns, accounting for 338 yards of total offense in the eighth-ranked Buckeyes’ 26-17 Rose Bowl win over ... Read More

By: John Cupps (BuckeyeCountry.net) -- PASADENA, CA -- Terrelle Pryor lead an impressive game passing for a season-high 266 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 72 more and threw a 17-yard scoring pass to DeVier Posey with just over seven minutes left in regulation.  The toss to Posey capped off a 13-play, 81-yard scoring drive ending the No. 8 Buckeyes' three-game BCS skid with a dominating  26-17 victory over No. 7 Oregon in the Rose Bowl. "I just wanted to lead the team ... Read More

By: Kevin Baxter (LATimes.com) -- The phone call came three years ago this month. Kurt Coleman remembers it as if it happened yesterday. It's hard to forget the night your father called to tell you he was dying. "It was Dec. 3, 2006," said Coleman, Ohio State's All-Big Ten strong safety. "And he basically just said 'I have cancer.' I started laughing. Why are you joking? "And he was like, 'No, I'm serious.' " It was breast cancer, a disease so rare among males it strikes ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Los Angeles — Five senior starters should take the field for Ohio State in Friday’s Rose Bowl, but the Buckeyes could wind up having to replace several other starters in 2010 and having to rebuild one of the best defenses in the country. Already gone will be safeties Kurt Coleman and Anderson Russell, linebacker Austin Spitler and defensive lineman Doug Worthington and Todd Denlinger. At least four other defensive regulars have decisions about whether they come back ... Read More

By: David Leon Moore (USAToday.com) -- LOS ANGELES — Kurt Coleman wraps up his college career in the Rose Bowl on Friday hoping he can wrap up Jeremiah Masoli, LaMichael James and LeGarrette Blount. The all-Big Ten Ohio State senior strong safety knows the game might hinge on whether he makes one-on-one tackles in open space against Oregon's explosive playmakers. "It they break a tackle, they can go all the way," Coleman says. But the Buckeyes know that, on and off the field, Coleman has been ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Jermale Hines got a late start to his Ohio State career, his freshman eligibility held up for five games while the NCAA confirmed his high school paperwork in 2007. Now the Glenville High grad might be ending his career early. Defensive linemen Thaddeus Gibson and Cameron Heyward and cornerback Chimdi Chekwa are the players most often mentioned as the Buckeyes most likely to leave school early for the NFL Draft. But Hines, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound safety ... Read More

By: Gary Horowitz (StatesmanJournal.com) -- LOS ANGELES — Oregon offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich isn't accustomed to the limelight, but he seemed comfortable during Tuesday's media gathering at the downtown Marriott. When asked about the play of Ohio State defensive end Cameron Heyward, Helfrich made a quick correction. "Mr. Heyward," Helfrich said, adding that the Buckeyes' 6-foot-6, 287-pound junior "looks like a super hero." Helfrich was impressed with Ohio State's front four. "We saw some of these guys the other day in Disneyland and we were trying ... Read More